When Geoff Blum sent a line drive toward the right-field line leading off the eighth inning Sunday night, the Cubs' Carlos Zambrano feared his no-hit bid was over. "I thought that ball was falling," he said. But right fielder Mark DeRosa raced toward the line and made a catch that looked routine...

No way. Carlos Zambrano's arm is killing him, so he doesn't pitch for 11 days, but he comes back and throws a no-hitter? No way. A hurricane hits Houston, so the Astros go all the way to Wisconsin to play a "home" game, so everybody in the stands can cheer for a no-hitter to be thrown against them?...

Any more questions? In a sequence of events reminiscent of Mike Scott's no-hitter to clinch a division championship for Houston in 1986, Carlos Zambrano single-handedly reawakened the excitement of nervous Cubs fans on Sunday night. Facing the Houston Astros in Milwaukee, a setting that provided...